id:			153612
accession number:	1987.142
share license status:	CC0
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The Idolatry of Solomon, 1622–23. Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596–1669). Pen and brown ink, point of brush and black ink, brush and brown wash, and white and blue gouache, framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 24.8 x 43.3 cm (9 3/4 x 17 1/16 in.); secondary support: 25.5 x 44.1 cm (10 1/16 x 17 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1987.142

title:				The Idolatry of Solomon
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creation date:			1622–23
creation date earliest:		1622
creation date latest:		1623
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Italy, 17th century
technique:	Pen and brown ink, point of brush and black ink, brush and brown wash, and white and blue gouache, framing lines in brown ink
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596–1669)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 24.8 x 43.3 cm (9 3/4 x 17 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 25.5 x 44.1 cm (10 1/16 x 17 3/8 in.)
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	description:	brown laid paper, laid down on cream(3) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	verso of secondary support, upper center, in graphite: 44; center, in blue ballpoint: Maria Elvira Celia Mendez de Bernasconi [underlined] / 1977; center, in graphite: Paolo Farinato; center, in graphite: [illegible]; lower left, in graphite: [illegible, partially masked]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1987
	opening date:   1988-02-24T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1987</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

	title:		Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650
	opening date:   1991-08-27T04:00:00
	<i>Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Capitaine C. Prayer (1826-1900), Milan (Lugt 2044)
	date: ca. 1900
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	de Bernasconi family, Buenas Aires
	date: ca. 1900
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	by descent to Marià Elvira Celia Méndez de Bernasconi (1927-2005), Buenos Aires (Lugt 5374)
	date: ?-1987
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	Christie's London, 1 April 1987, no. 66.
	date: 1987
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	with Kate Ganz, Ltd, London
	date: 1987
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1987-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Christie, Manson &amp; Woods. <em>Fine Old Master Drawings</em>. London: 1987.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 45, under n. 66; Reproduced: p.44, n. 66
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	"The Year in Review for 1987." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 31-71.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 68, n. 120
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	"Museum Acquisitions." <em>Drawing </em>10, no. 1 (May-June 1988): 17-18.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 17
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	Merz, Jörg Martin. <em>Pietro da Cortona: Der Aufstieg zum führenden Maler im barocken Rom</em>. Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth, 1991.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 25, 45, 69-71, 145; Reproduced: n. 99
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 88
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991

	DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 10, 50-51, 285; Reproduced: p. 51, n. 15
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